Xi Jinping celebrates tech gains in AI and semiconductors as China enters 2026

In a live New Year’s Eve speech broadcast to 1.4 billion people, President Xi Jinping made it clear: China isn’t stepping back, it’s charging forward. “China has become one of the world’s fastest-risi...

Prenetics Halts Bitcoin Buying Plan Months After $48M Raise

Prenetics halted its Bitcoin accumulation plan less than three months after raising $48 million. Capital is now fully redirected toward scaling IM8, a supplements brand. Existing BTC holdings remain u...

Accumulation Phase Far From Sight As Selling Pressure Intensifies for XRP ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Selling pressure on XRP is intensifying, raising questions about whether the market can sustain any meaningful accumulation phase in the near term. Recent ...

TRUMP Memecoin Team May Have Withdrawn $94M USDC from Liquidity Pools

The developers of the Official TRUMP memecoin quietly withdrew $94 million in USDC from Solana liquidity pools over three weeks using a Meteora DLMM soft-unwinding strategy, sending funds to Coinbase ...

Canadian Coinbase Scammer Blows $2M+ on Bottle Service

Haby, a Canadian threat actor, used social-engineering scams to steal over $2M in Coinbase accounts to spend it on bottle service and rare usernames. One Canadian cybercriminal has stolen more than 2 ...

The $250M Post-Airdrop Exodus Reveals DeFi’s Fluid Capital Reality

Lighter Withdrawals: The $250M Post-Airdrop Exodus Reveals DeFi’s Fluid Capital Reality Skip to content Home Crypto News Lighter Withdrawals: The $250M Post-Airdrop Exodus Reveals DeFi’s Fluid C...

CLARITY Act Set to Advance as Senate Picks January 15 for Crypto Bill Markup

The CLARITY is one step closer to advancing in the U.S. Senate, as the Banking Committee has reportedly picked a date for the markup of the crypto bill. This comes as crypto traders bet that the bill ...

Users are the best investors to have

This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “Corporations are legal entities that own themselves.” — Lynn Stout The idea that companies should be run for the ben...

Privacy Coins Outperform as Crypto Investors Turn Defensive

The digital asset sector is closing out a turbulent quarter marked by losses, strained market infrastructure and investor disappointment. Yet one corner of the market stood out: privacy-focused crypto...

KuCoin unveils AI assistant KIA to streamline access to crypto market insights

Key Takeaways KuCoin has introduced KIA, an AI assistant for its users. KIA helps users by providing market insights through a conversational AI interface. Global crypto exchange KuCoin announced toda...

Bitcoin Approaches $90K as Jobless Claims Deliver Surprise

Is good news bad news?  Just one rate cut?  According to the latest data provided by the Department of Labor, initial jobless claims fell to 199,000.  This is a rather notable drop, given that analyst...

US Jobs Data Clouds Fed Rate Cuts, Crypto Faces Pressure

US initial jobless claims fell sharply in the final week of December, reinforcing signs of labor market resilience and complicating expectations for early interest rate cuts in 2026. Initial claims fo...

Unregistered Bitcoin Mining In Russia May Soon Come With Up To Two Years Of Forced Labor

Russia is preparing to escalate its crackdown on unregistered cryptocurrency mining, proposing criminal penalties that include forced labor and prison sentences, little more than a year after formally...

This New Altcoin Priced Under $0.1 Might Change Your Crypto Portfolio Forever

Noise is not the beginning of some of the best crypto stories. They start quietly. The process of development occurs behind the scenes. First users come without headlines. Then visibility appears so q...

US Unemployment Claims Fall to 199,000 for Week Ending Dec 27, Beating Market Expectations of 220,000 (Lowest Since Nov 29)

COINOTAG News reports that the US initial unemployment claims for the week ending December 27 declined to 199,000, a fresh low since the week ending November 29. The result came in below the market ex...

Cardano (ADA) Founder Charles Hoskinson Criticizes US Exchange! “You’re Missing a Huge Opportunity by Not Listing This Altcoin!”

Cardano (ADA) Founder Charles Hoskinson Criticizes US Exchange! “You’re Missing a Huge Opportunity by Not Listing This Altcoin!” – Bitcoin Sistemi ...

Polymarket secures up to $2 billion, Kalshi raises $1 billion in Fintech funding boom of 2025

Polymarket locked in $2 billion in new funding this year while Kalshi raked in $1.3 billion, setting the pace in a year when fintech companies finally clawed their way back into the venture capital sc...

Polymarket’s Bitcoin Prediction Suggests Potential Surge

Key Points: Polymarket predicts Bitcoin to hit $100,000 by 2026. Polymarket’s users trade Bitcoin’s 2026 performance. Bitcoin shows 59% dominance amid market volatility. Bitcoin price probabilities fo...

ChainGPT Integrates CoinGecko for Smarter and Reliable AI-Driven Crypto Insights

ChainGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI-driven) Web3 platform designed to simplify crypto and blockchain, has disclosed its strategic partnership with CoinGecko, a leading crypto data and analytics p...

Top Altcoins to Watch in 2026: Zcash, Solana, Chainlink, and Bittensor Stand Out

Zcash trades at $524, down 91% from ATH after gaining 830% in 2025 on privacy demand. Solana at $125 hosts largest DePIN concentration while Firedancer upgrade approaches. Chainlink at $12.35 down 76....

Emerging Markets Bond Team Analyzes Gold’s Potential as Reserve Standard

Peter Zhang Dec 31, 2025 11:15 VanEck’s Emerging Markets Bonds team explores the implications of gold replacing the US dollar as the reserve standard, estimatin...

Ethereum Whales Trim ETH Longs and Pivot to BTC in Dec 31 On-Chain Rebalance Update

COINOTAG News, citing Hyperinsight, reports a split in on-chain sentiment on December 31, as whales executed rebalancing between 10:00 and 20:00. The analysis identifies bullish and bearish camps, und...

Can crypto overtake gold and stocks in 2026? THESE numbers say…

Journalist Posted: December 31, 2025 This year, though the crypto market looked eventful, but it really wasn’t all that. While stocks and metals pushed higher, digital assets struggled to keep pace wi...

Trump Media Cryptocurrency Unveils Revolutionary Shareholder Token Distribution Via Crypto.com Partnership

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Bitcoin’s Market Cap Revisits Historically Bearish Zone, Expert Tells What Could Happen ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Bitcoin is flashing bearish signals as its market capitalization slips into a zone associated with aggressive downside. According to Aphractal CEO João Wed...

Arthur Hayes Predicts Crypto Market Liquidity Recovery

Key Points: Arthur Hayes foresees rising crypto liquidity after November lows. Market sentiment improves with expected value gains. Hayes shifts investment into DeFi tokens anticipating liquidity-driv...

Ethereum’s Vitalik Fears Government Power Over Big Tech

Ethereum developer Vitalik Buterin cautions that the greatest danger is held by governmental authority, not Big Tech. His essay, Balance of Power, discusses why decentralization is so essential nowada...

TRUMP Memecoin Closes Year With Heavy Outflows and Intensifying Oversight

Altcoins Large stablecoin movements linked to the Official Trump memecoin on Solana are drawing renewed attention after onchain analysts identified tens of millions of dollars exiting liquidity pools ...

Crypto Markets Face New Risks From Scale and Centralization

Power concentration risks are rising in crypto as scale, automation, and coordination costs decline. Economies of scale are driving consolidation across exchanges, custody, and infrastructure layers. ...

Crypto Market Gets Year-end Boost as Fed Injects $74 Billion Into Economy

The crypto market is looking to stage a year-end rally before 2026 begins and has received a major boost with the New York Fed’s overnight repo operations, its largest this year. This development coin...

Bitwise Pushes Deeper Into Altcoins With Broad ETF Filing

Altcoins Crypto asset manager Bitwise is pushing further into the altcoin ETF arena after submitting a broad filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a new suite of single-token “stra...

$1 Billion XRP Unlock Set for January, Supply Shock or Noise?

Welcome to the US Crypto News Morning Briefing—your essential rundown of the most important developments in crypto for the day ahead. Grab a coffee and settle in. January is already shaping up to test...